General listing policies

Sites are submitted for consideration to the rfc-ignorant.org database by individuals around the world. In many cases, there is no non-obtrusive method of determining whether or not a site meets the criteria. For example, there is no definitive way of testing that <postmaster@domain> will fail if the mail server doesn't reject it at the RCPT-TO stage - if you commit to the DATA stage, and you're wrong, then the recipient postmaster gets your test message in their mailbox. It is this site's firm belief that, if a site is obeying the RFC (which they are, by having a working address in that case), that the site owner should not have to delete a message from a tester.

In these cases, evidence is accepted from the end-user at face value. The submitting IP and the date and time are stored in the database along with the evidence provided, and appear in any lookup request for a given domain.

If a site is believed to be listed in error, or has corrected the problem which caused its listing, please contact admin@rfc-ignorant.org, requesting that you be tested for compliance. If successful, the entries will be marked as cleared in the database.

Also, before a site is submitted, the submitter must have made a due diligence effort to notify the system maintainer of the problem. In some cases, this may be impossible, and this is understood, but some effort must have been made.


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